’s Theorem without paying royalties, but rather if software and algorithms underlying the software are patentable. Although … software is based on algorithms similar to the algorithm discovered by Euclid, in the United States software are generally … patented.Open source paradigm — here explored — could resolve the software patentability issue, in addition to represent the …

of software development violates the assumptions of patent law, which generally requires that electromechanical … inventions be conceived, described, and claimed in terms of their physical structure. Patent law should allow software to be … conceived, described, and claimed in terms of its logical structure to produce a better fit between patent law and software …

To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL …) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the … relevance and impacts of this distribution strategy in the presence of an incumbent open source software competitor. We …

Open source software and the movement behind it, the Open Source Software Movement unknown to many has been in … existence since long. Discussed in the article is this concept with relevance to the software industry. The US statutes on … sourcing, which have turned out to be the buzzwords in the computer software industry are also brought into limelight. A look …

source software to run their business smoothly.Proprietary software is protected by copyright and/or patent that confers the …This thesis aims to provide clues on how software developers could use and distribute proprietary software and open … rightholders exclusive rights for the use of their software. The developers of proprietary software use their exclusive rights to …

This paper examines the role played by "continuations" (procedural revisions of patent applications) within software … continuations in software patenting. Sharp reversals in these growth rates after 1995 suggest that changes in the U.S. patent law … patenting and the implications that the use by patentees of continuations has for free and open-source software design. Our …

number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also … exist with the patent-granting process, they do not rise to the level of justifying a ban on software patents. Instead …

-implemented inventions, the subject remains very controversial, particularly due to the fact that the European Patent Office has maintained … its practice of granting patents on software matters. Therefore, a large number of questions are still pending. This … article asks in a general manner and without any prepossession to what extent software can be patented in the actual state of …